2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
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And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)We have here sight given to a poor beggar that had been blind from his birth. Observe, I. The notice which our Lord Jesus took of the piteous case of this poor blind man (John 9:1): As Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth . The first words seem to refer to the last of the foregoing chapter, and countenance the opinion of those who in the harmony place this story immediately…
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